A man with “ties to Iran” has been charged with plotting an assassination on former President Trump. Asif Merchant from Pakistan reportedly traveled to New York in April in order to “recruit hit men to carry out his scheme but was foiled when one of the people approached reported him to the FBI and became an informant, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said.”
In the aftermath of the actual shooting of President Trump, officials had warned that this is not the assassination attempt they had been watching. Iran, they told us. It was supposed to have been Iran!
How do we know that Merchant had ties to Iran? The Justice Department says that he spent time in Iran prior to coming to the U.S. and that Iran is motivated to do this because the Trump administration killed Iran’s leader Qassem Soleimani in a 2020 drone strike.
Is this plausible?
Sure but it also seems a convenient deflection from the actual assassination attempt that happened in July that the media forgot about. Also, if you were to think like an enemy of the U.S., would you need to assassinate anyone? The U.S. is doing a pretty good job of tearing itself apart right now. In the words of Napoleon: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
